Jun 25, 2025
Pattern block quilt progress!
I assembled the first set of shapes and played around with a layout. I'll be making this up as I go
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Pattern block quilt progress!
I assembled the first set of shapes and played around with a layout. I'll be making this up as I go
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designing tadc style characters is a lot of fun, it's a really personally resonant series and i like to bring things that brought me joy in a time where i would always look foreward to friday at school cause that's when we could go to the computer lab.
anyway i don't have a name for this girl, i like golemi tho, and i imagine her being tall asf, probably one horizontal rhombus block taller than kinger
I am 33 years old and I still think about wanting to sit in the far corner and play with Lincoln logs and pattern blocks.
Idc what you think. I just want to know why people havent made fridge Pattern block magnets a thing yet. They have word magnets, but where are my fridge wooden pattern blocks?
FLORAL JACKET.
For autumn, you need a jacket to keep you warm, but also comfortable to be round the office or the house without feeling heavy. And if it has the autumn palette, the better!
I cut my pattern following my block. The block has my personal measurements, so I added a few centimetres for ease and seam allowance.
Once I had my pattern, I cut two of the same and sewed them right sides together. Then I cut open the front and soften the edges.
For the sleeves I used the armhole to draft the pattern, adding my biceps and wrist measurements, and the arm length, from shoulder to wrist. And then I sewed it to itself and to the jacket, right sides together.
In the beginning, I had planned to add some extra fabric to the front and bottom, to hem it, but I didn’t have enough fabric, so, thinking of a solution, I remembered I had a beautiful black velvet ribbon, from my grandma’s shop, the perfect solution to finish it off.
The result is a lovely jacket, dressy enough to go on a date and comfy enough to stay in!
Spiraling Dodecagon
Christopher Danielson posted the image up top, which got Simon Gregg playing. The unit is the spiraling dodecagon, which is polygrin, reflecting 5 edges of a regular dodecagon in towards the other side. (Other polygrins also have fabulous properties. Pentagon 3/2, Hexagon 4/2, etc.) That got me interested in different repetition rules... which raised a lot of questions for me. Last image is Hana Murray’s great scale 4 dodecagon.
Simon’s twitter thread
Henri Picciotto’s pattern block dodecagon page
Online pattern block tool
Old GeoGebra with the spiraling pentagon. Newer GGB with the spiraling dodecagon.
Paul Gailiunas research paper from Bridges 2007
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New on the list of things that kept me up at night:
Attempting to visualize making a Tangram Square in my head even though I have zero spatial awareness and only half-remembered the shapes in the set
Suddenly remembering midway through that there's no Hexagon Tangram, and I was thinking of the other set of shapes that you'd play with in kindergarten
Googling what a Tangram set actually contains
Being haunted by not remembering the name of that other set of shapes
Frantically googling shit like "set of shapes that aren't Tangrams" in an attempt to remember what they're called
PATTERN BLOCKS
THEY WERE CALLED PATTERN BLOCKS
And so it begins... Mosaic project round 2. Getting ready to start cutting rock for the full table. Each square would be about 10 inches by 10 inches. I want to do three in a row, with a border, for a full 36 inch x 16 inch tabletop. Or thereabouts. Finish with a clear epoxy so it doesn’t eat any ceramic or glass object set on top of it and doesn’t pick up oil or residue from spilled foods or liquids. I’m limited by what shapes I can cut (no inward corners, external only), what shapes will hold together (no super fine points), and what shapes I like (no big, equal-sided triangles :P ) and by my sanity and patience! But I got one done. What’s three more plus the border? Just got to settle on which three... same basic shape arrangement, but each one has a different use of shape. The colors mean nothing, just a way to make my brain ignore lines.
Star Design
Simon Gregg laser cut some beautiful stars to go with his pattern blocks, and I got to wondering what other stars might be nice. Which would you make?
See Simon's tweet. Design your own on GeoGebraTube.